Well, after months of research, experimentation, frustration, time, and
money; I think I found the freezing problem.

I am using vipre anti-virus, because it is speech friendly.

In the scan settings, they have dialogs for quick scan and deep scan.

There is also a radio button to scan removable drives.

With 4 TB or so of drive space, this might take a while.

Well, by default vipre runs a quick scan every 10 hours.  If however the
computer is off at the time of a scheduled quick scan, it runs a deep scan
when the computer is booted.

I unchecked this setting and haven't had a freeze since.  That was yesterday
afternoon, so I am not declairing victory yet.

I saw this problem through a google search, and the malware update was
blamed.  The propozed solution was to manually change the paging file size
to twice the ram.

I couldn't find this in the system settings of windows 7, which was the
location in xp.

So if any of you have the same problem, here is a solution that is worth a
try.

Two solutions actually, but so far changing the scan schedule seems to work.

 

 

Howard Kaufman MSW LCSW